In her own words...
"Zero"
2009
Now that legal tender has
lost its tenderness,
And its very legality
is so often in question,
It may be time to consider
the zero---
long rows of them,
empty, black circles in clumps
of three,
presided over by a numeral
or two.
Admired, even revered,
these zeroes
of imaginary money
capture
the open gaze of innocents
like a vision of earthly paradise.
Now the zero has
a new name:
The Economy.
As for that earthly
paradise—well…